# Trent Lott is an idiot **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 7, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083 "2002-12-07T04:00:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083/21 "2002-12-07T07:41:11Z")
—Apos, do you follow politics in America? He knew how the remark would be interpreted coming from him, and he chose his words with that interpretation in mind. Everyone knew what he meant.— Let me put it more bluntly, since this is the BBQpit: you’d have to be a real dumbass to think that “unless lightining strikes, Hillary will soon be in the Senate” is the same thing as saying “I sure hope lightining strikes and kills Hillary.” I have no love for Lott, but just because one doesn’t like him doesn’t make ANY potential “gotcha” game equally legitimate. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083/22 "2002-12-07T10:32:32Z")
Before this thread, I at least would of thought Trent Lott spoke English. [sub]Pssst. If you’re not going to eat that, can I of it?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![45\_70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/5f9b8f/32.png) [@45\_70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/45_70)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083/23 "2002-12-07T13:55:58Z")
Thanks for stating the obvious. Trent Lott is the perfect politition. He couldn’t lead a horse with a rope. His sole purpose is to wear a suit. stand in front of a camera, and sound stupid. The real tragedy here is this worthless jerk has a fair amount of control over our every day lives. He is just about the best example of one term term limits there is. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083/24 "2002-12-07T15:12:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > **Before this thread, I at least would of thought Trent Lott spoke English.** GAH!!! Would **HAVE**! You at least would _ **have** _ thought! ---
**Author:** ![carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrot)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083/25 "2002-12-07T15:21:09Z")
Err…I think he did that on purpose, **Neurotik**. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083/26 "2002-12-07T15:22:47Z")
Bah. ---
**Author:** ![carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrot)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083/27 "2002-12-07T15:26:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Neurotik \* > \*\*Bah. \*\* Feeling a bit sheepish, are we?😃 ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083/28 "2002-12-07T15:32:38Z")
Bah. Like Bah Humbug. Not ba-aah. Don’t make me kill you, **carrot**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrot)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083/29 "2002-12-07T15:39:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Neurotik \* > \*\*Don’t make me kill you, **carrot**. 🙂 \*\* …and I go on cracking wise, like a lamb to the slaughter, to be…umm…slaughtered, I guess. 😉 Ahem. Sorry. This hijack is officially over ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083/30 "2002-12-07T15:41:10Z")
Ha. You can’t stop it. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083/31 "2002-12-07T15:48:59Z")
From the OP: > [@](#): > > I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country **had of followed** our lead we **wouldn’t of had** all these problems over all these years, either. So, of you had enough, Neurotic? ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083/32 "2002-12-07T16:01:20Z")
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Bah. My confusion is all your fault anyway for taking so long to make a reference. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083/33 "2002-12-07T16:11:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by zigaretten \* > \*\*Be careful…… > > In [this](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393049639/qid=1039243585/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-6716696-7458355?v=glance&s=books) Martin Gardener discusses the time that Al Gore sponsored legislation to create a National Committee on Human Resources which was to include parapsychologists. He also reminds us of Reagans fondness for astrology and those little tete-a-tetes that Hillary used to hold with Eleanor Roosevelts ghost. > > Unfortunately, the book came out too early to cover the giant [UFO Conspiracy](http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/10/22/ufo.records/) revealed by Clintons White House Chief of Staff John Podesta. > > I’ve long since given up hope that all people in powerful positions will be as rational as I would like for them to be. \*\* I hope you didn’t think I’m a Dem just because Trent Lott can’t grasp high school physics. Everything you mentioned is obscene, no matter the political affiliation.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083/34 "2002-12-07T16:17:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Neurotik \* > \*\*I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. > > Bah. > > My confusion is all your fault anyway for taking so long to make a reference. \*\* Oh, I’ll just accept the blame anyway. If I hadn’t been born, it never would of happened. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083/35 "2002-12-07T16:21:37Z")
Good. I’m glad we got this cleared up. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083/36 "2002-12-07T16:30:25Z")
Great. Of a nice day. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083/37 "2002-12-07T16:42:15Z")
Bastard. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083/38 "2002-12-07T16:44:35Z")
😃 ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083/39 "2002-12-07T17:17:15Z")
**Jeeee** pers… Late-Breaking News: Hell Freezes Over, Pigs Fly, and DDG Agrees With December… 😃 Saying, “If this country had elected Strom Thurmond president back in 1948, we wouldn’t have had all the problems we’ve had over the years” is completely idiotic. He really thinks that if Strom had been president from 1948 to 1952, that that would have changed something, somehow? That we wouldn’t have had the Fifties and the Sixties and the Seventies and the Eighties and the Nineties, with each decade’s unique turmoils and tribulations? Geez. :rolleyes: It’s like that sci-fi story where the guy steps on a single butterfly during his trip back to the age of dinosaurs, and when he comes back to the present, it’s a totalitarian dictatorship. Thing is, that’s _fiction_. The whole reason the Dixiecrats dropped out of the national Democratic party and nominated Strom was because of HHH’s strong civil rights plank in the Dems’ platform. [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories\_events\_truman.html](http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_truman.html) > [@](#): > > One of Truman’s strongest arguments in favor of civil rights was that American and Russia were now locked in a deadly “Cold War” and the Russians were using America’s Jim Crow policies to win support from the rest of the world. Southerners replied that the civil-rights program was supported by Communists. > > Strom Thurmond, Governor of South Carolina, and a group of Southern delegates walked out of the Democratic Convention when the civil-rights platform passed. The dissidents formed the States’ Rights party, whose members came to known as Dixiecrats. A reporter asked Thurmond why he had bolted from the Democratic party when President Truman had not done anything substantially different from his predecessor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Thurmond replied, “Yes – but Truman really means it.” So Trent thinks that electing one by-god racist president back in 1948 would have, what, kept all that nasty civil rights stuff from happening, and we’d still have blacks who knew their place? Egad. Or, no, wait, I know, he’s talking about the problems with the International Space Station, right? Yes, that’s it. See, if the Commie-hating Strom had been elected in 1948, he’d have used the Bomb to send Russia back to the Stone Age on January 21, 1949, and then we wouldn’t have had a Space Race, or a Space Program, so we wouldn’t have to be worrying about funding for the ISS, or having to rationalize what it’s for, or dealing with the Russkies, you can’t tell _me_ they’ve reformed, or worse, dealing with the heathen Chinese, where were they when we were sending men into orbit, huh, or worst of all talking to those eggheads down at NASA, is that _all_ they can talk about, is manned-mission-to-Mars, manned-mission-to-Mars yadda yadda yadda…? Yep, those are some mighty big problems all right, and if only Strom Thurmond had been leading this country, we could have bypassed all of them. Plus he’d have known exactly how to deal with Joe McCarthy–give the man a bigass special office (hey, we could call it something like “Homeland Security”) and as many troops from the FBI and the Army as he required to Get The Job Done, get them damn commie pinko fags out of there… [leaving thread with a small shudder for what might have been, and a renewed respect for the haberdasher from Kansas] ---
**Author:** ![december](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083/40 "2002-12-07T17:24:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by 45/70 \* > \*\*Thanks for stating the obvious. Trent Lott is the perfect politition. He couldn’t lead a horse with a rope. His sole purpose is to wear a suit. stand in front of a camera, and sound stupid. The real tragedy here is this worthless jerk has a fair amount of control over our every day lives. He is just about the best example of one term term limits there is. \*\* Amen. Trent Lott is affable – and that’s the end of his list of virtues. It’s sad that affability alone has made him one of the mosts powerful people in the world. ☹ [sup]Maybe that’s a good lesson for some of the brilliant, but surly people who post here.[/sup] 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trent-lott-is-an-idiot/141083.md?page=3)